Close Public Comment. Next item . Item 7. General Public Comment. Opportunity for the public to comment on any item whatsoever related to the Transportation Authority. Will close Public Comment. Next item. Adjournment. We are adjourned. I called this meeting to order. Welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority finance committee. I am scott the chair of the committee. To my left is commissioner david chiu, to my right as commissioner norman yee. I would like to welcome to the Transportation Authority. And i want to thank gov tv, charles criminack [sounds like] for broadcasting todays meeting. Are there any announcements . No announcement. Call item two. Are there any questions or changes for minutes. Comments from the public. Seeing none. Commissioner carver has joined us. Item 3, reading from agenda. Good morning. Director for planning and happy new year to all. Welcome to our newest board member commissioner yee. This item is a recommendation for an award for a consu
Mar . Mar, present. Kim, absent. Olague. We are absolutely a quorum. And i did hear that commissioner cohen and commissioner weiner as well. If you could call item two. Approval of minutes of the november 20, 2012 this is an action item. Colleagues this is an action item, before we take action, i want to open it up to Public Comment, any people of the public who would like to speak on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. If we could have the roll call. Avos. Aye. Chiu aye. Chu. Aye. Cohen. Elsbernd . Fer ill . Aye. Kim, absent. Mar, olague . Aye. Weiner . Aye. And item passes. Thank you very much. Item passes if you could call item number three. Three, chairs report, information item. Thank you very much. First of all i want to wish every one a happy holiday season. And i also want to acknowledge that today is a very significant day for many of us here at the county Transportation Authority for a couple of our commissioners it will be the last county Transportation Auth
We will be working together on the study to expre parking ways, and Management Strategies for San Francisco. Rfp was issued in november. The panel comprised from our agency and interviews were held in january. We are recommending the award of the contract to cambridge. Theyre coming to the project with an almost 10 percent dbe sub. We are looking forward to working with them as soon as the award is made final to the committee and the board. Thank you. Other any questions or comments re item number three . Seeing then well open it to Public Comment. If there is any member of the public like to comment please come forward. I think it is when the meeting started late. You informed the people in the audience. Very few people come to these meetings. One of the reason is because there is no interaction between the committee and the constituents of San Francisco. So this meeting started late, and i know there was an emergency of some sort. It is good etiquette to announce that. Having said th
Transportation special taxes from two thirds to 55 percent. Sca 9 is a little bit of a variance on that. It too would seek to reduce the voters threshold from two thirds to 55 percent. For Economic Development projects. Those are not well defined in the bill yet. There is a lot of work to be done on this measure so we recommended watch. However for the two local sales tax measure bills we recommended support position. I can take questions here. I have a quick budget overview. What you get that update in that we will take questions. Last week the governor release figures for the 201314 budget. Legislative analyst said its a reasonable budget. For the first time in recent memory you have a balanced budget in effect with a good chance of remaining in balance. The risk are mostly what might happen from the federal government and cost impact that might flow to the state in a couple of minor risks. They stamped it prudent. First time ive seen that in 15 years. In the world Transportation One
And i want to thank gov tv, charles criminack [sounds like] for broadcasting todays meeting. Are there any announcements . No announcement. Call item two. Are there any questions or changes for minutes. Comments from the public. Seeing none. Commissioner carver has joined us. Item 3, reading from agenda. Good morning. Director for planning and happy new year to all. Welcome to our newest board member commissioner yee. This item is a recommendation for an award for a consulting contract for cambridge we will be working together on the study to expre parking ways, and Management Strategies for San Francisco. Rfp was issued in november. The panel comprised from our agency and interviews were held in january. We are recommending the award of the contract to cambridge. Theyre coming to the project with an almost 10 percent dbe sub. We are looking forward to working with them as soon as the award is made final to the committee and the board. Thank you. Other any questions or comments re item